Friday, April 4, 2014

Ndege iliyopotea yatafutwa chini ya maji

Perth, Australia

The search for missing Malaysia
Airlines Flight MH370 in remote seas off Australia headed underwater on Friday,
with a U.S. Navy high tech "black box" locator deployed for the first
time as the battery life of the cockpit data recorder dwindles.

"The area of highest probability
as to where the aircraft might have entered the water is the area where the
underwater search will commence," Retired Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston,
the head of the Australian agency coordinating the operation, told reporters in
Perth.

"On best advice the locator
beacon will last about a month before it ceases its transmissions so we're now
getting pretty close to the time when it might expire."

On Monday it will be 30 days since
the jetliner lost communications and disappeared from civilian radar less than
an hour into an overnight flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8.

The Boeing 777 was briefly picked up
on military radar on the other side of Malaysia and analysis of subsequent
hourly electronic "handshakes" exchanged with a satellite led
investigators to conclude the plane crashed far off the west Australian coast
hours later.

The search for missing
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in remote seas off Australia headed
underwater on Friday, with a U.S. Navy high tech "black box" locator
deployed for the first time as the battery life of the cockpit data
recorder dwindles.
Australian authorities said the so-called Towed Pinger Locator will be
pulled behind navy ship HMAS Ocean Shield, searching a converging course
on a 240 km (150 miles) track with British hydrographic survey ship HMS
Echo.
"The area of highest probability as to where the aircraft might have
entered the water is the area where the underwater search will
commence," Retired Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, the head of the
Australian agency coordinating the operation, told reporters in Perth.
"On best advice the locator beacon will last about a month before it
ceases its transmissions so we're now getting pretty close to the time
when it might expire."
On Monday it will be 30 days since the jetliner lost communications and
disappeared from civilian radar less than an hour into an overnight
flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8.
The Boeing 777 was briefly picked up on military radar on the other side
of Malaysia and analysis of subsequent hourly electronic "handshakes"
exchanged with a satellite led investigators to conclude the plane
crashed far off the west Australian coast hours later. Read more at: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000108603&story_title=hunt-for-malaysian-plane-heads-underwater